Building a Smarter Care Home: A Deep Dive Into HealthSonar's Architecture for Assisted Living

Ntanis, Adamantios; Kontaxis, Spyridon; Rigas, George; Pentari, Anastasia; Tsiouris, Kostas; Kontogiannis, Efstathios; Kostoulas, Eleftherios; Tsimperis, Ilias; Vlioras, Theodoros; Bousis, Aristotelis; Zelilidou, Styliani; Tasiou, Kalypso; Tsiknakis, Manolis; Fotiadis, Dimitrios

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Building a Smarter Care Home: A Deep Dive Into HealthSonar's Architecture for Assisted Living

Authors:
Adamantios Ntanis
Spyridon Kontaxis
George Rigas
Anastasia Pentari
Kostas Tsiouris
Efstathios Kontogiannis
Eleftherios Kostoulas
Ilias Tsimperis
Theodoros Vlioras
Aristotelis Bousis
Styliani Zelilidou
Kalypso Tasiou
Manolis Tsiknakis
Dimitrios Fotiadis

Keywords: ultra-wideband radar; health monitoring; sleep monitoring; gait analysis; fall detection; care home monitoring; assisted living.

Abstract:
This study introduces HealthSonar, an innovative, unobtrusive and privacy-preserving health monitoring system, designed for the continuous monitoring of elderly individuals and patients with movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. HealthSonar offers a suite of features, including sleep quality tracking, sleep apnea event identification, mobility assessment, real-time fall detection and fall notification. The system itself comprises an impulse-radio, ultra-wideband radar device, a web portal, a dashboard, and a mobile application. HealthSonar is particularly well-suited for use in potentially hazardous areas of care homes and hospitals (such as bathrooms), where continuous monitoring of their residents/inpatients is essential, especially during nighttime. To demonstrate the system's utility, a care home deployment is presented, detailing the installation of the radar-based device, the monitoring procedure of the residents as well as the management of the system. Through this application, it is effectively demonstrated that HealthSonar can be seamlessly integrated into clinical settings improving the quality of life of elders/patients, preventing injuries and reducing the workload of their personnel as well as of the overall healthcare system in general.

Pages: 21 to 32

Publication date: June 30, 2024

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2660